Secondo quanto riporta, appunto, The Hollywood Reporter, il famigerato THR, non sarebbe più, come precedentemente annunciato, Tim Burton alla regia, impegnato ora nella pre-produzione di Dumbo, ma Paul Thomas Anderson a dirigere questa speriamo splendente versione di Pinocchio.
Downey Jr. viene sempre accostato al progetto e rivestirà i panni del famoso Geppetto.
Collodi eccolo qui o là, chi Il Gatto e La Volpe sarà/nno? De Niro & Pacino. Magari.
Warner Bros. and Team Downey are moving forward with their live-action take on Pinocchio and have enlisted Paul Thomas Anderson to write a draft with an eye toward directing.Though the film would seem far outside of Anderson’s wheelhouse, the move shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Downey was poised to star in Anderson’s Inherent Viceuntil his Avengers: Age of Ultron obligations got in the way andJoaquin Phoenix stepped in to play the lead. Downey and Anderson are good friends and have been looking to work together for some time.
The Giver writer Michael Mitnick penned the latest draft of Pinocchio, and Downey has been quietly tweaking the script for the past six months. Downey has been developing Pinocchio for years, but the project has found new urgency in the wake of a string of live-action hits based on kids’ classics, most recently Disney’s Cinderella.
Ever since auteur Tim Burton turned Alice in Wonderland into a billion-dollar live-action franchise and theAngelina Jolie starrer Maleficent earned $758 million worldwide last year, the studios have been angling to set up projects based on live-action kids’ tales, with A-list directors flocking to the projects across town.
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